The origins of Stonehenge’s massive stone monoliths, long shrouded in mystery, have at last been demystified. Experts have traced them to boulders in the nearby chalk hills of Marlborough Downs, just ...

Weighing 6.5 tons and transported to Stonehenge around 5,000 years ago, a new study pegs the Altar Stone's origin to Scotland ...

Stonehenge has long been described as ceremonial, astronomical — even mystical. But what if it was functional? A new engineering theory suggests the layout of Stonehenge may have served as a working ...

Stonehenge has long been one of history’s great mysteries — and the world heritage site has just revealed yet another layer to its story. Archaeologists have discovered a network of underground shafts ...

A dramatic image of Stonehenge made the rounds on social media in July 2025, just before the month's end. The image, according to a Facebook post (archived) with over 70,000 reactions in two days, was ...

In the summer of 2019, I walked up a hillside in west Wales with Richard Bevins, a researcher who specializes in petrology, the study of the origins, compositions, and structures of rocks. We climbed ...

Stonehenge is located on Salisbury Plain in southern England. garethwiscombe via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY 2.0 Around 5,000 years ago, prehistoric people in what is now southern England began ...

Study uncovers mysterious origins of ancient migrants who replaced Stonehenge builders - Findings challenge previous claims that Bell Beaker people came mostly from Iberia ...

London — Environmental activists sprayed several of the ancient stones of Britain's iconic Stonehenge site with an orange substance Wednesday, demanding that the next U.K. government — set to be ...

Carved sarsens-enormous blocks of hard sandstone-were used to build the towering trilithons that dominate the landscape of Salisbury Plain in southern England. But archaeologists Timothy Darvill and ...